Upstate/downstate

[Dave Wilton]

> New Jersey is a north-south state yet, like California,
> it is considered to consist of "North Jersey" and "South
> Jersey", perhaps for the same reason as in California.
> There are two major metropolitan areas, Camden/other
> Philadelphia suburban, and New York City suburban,
> neither of which dominate the rest of the Garden State
> the way New York City does the Empire State.  Hence neither
> region can call itself "downstate" and the rest "upstate."

No "downstate/upstate," but there is the phrase "down the shore," used by those in North Jersey to refer to the coastal regions of the south.

--Dave Wilton
  dave at wilton.net
  http://www.wilton.net

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